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"Through past millennia, human life span has increased as people have learned how to prevent and treat illness. By the beginning of the 21st century, average life span had exceeded 80 years in some countries. There is much reason to believe that future medical advances will increase not only life span but also quality of life. person—or from animal to person. Examples: common cold, influenza, chickenpox, measles, tuberculosis, AIDS. Hereditary diseases, which are transferred from parent to child via the genes. Examples: Down syndrome, hemophilia, sickle cell anemia." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Before his day, such innovations would have been superfluous; for the people of the preceding period—who were four miles tall, with one hundred and twenty-eight ribs, enjoying a life span of two periods of countless years—were supplied in all their needs by ten "wish-fulfilling trees" (kalpa vrikshd), which gave sweet fruits, leaves that were shaped like pots and pans, leaves that sweetly sang, leaves that gave forth light at night, flowers delightful to see and to smell, food perfect both to sight and to taste, leaves that might serve as jewelry, and bark providing beautiful clothes." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"The two-hundred-meter limit that generally describes the farthest a normal rat journeys during a single life span (typically two years or so) means that, on their own, the eight-inch-long rats can spread less than fifteen miles in a century. So long as there are people, however, rats don't have to travel on their own, and as a result, they live, literally, everywhere humans do." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Lengthen your life span. After analyzing data from more than 15,000 people ages 45 to 64, researchers from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health found that as whole grain intake went up, total mortality (the rate of death from all causes) went down. The people who ate the most whole grains had a 23 percent lower risk of all-cause mortality than those who ate fewer whole grains. Reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"It also increases the population's average life span, so rhe two together translate into longer and healthier life. It is important to note that the reducrion of calories is not the only criterion. The calories consumed must be "nutrient dense" healthy calories. (R.L. Walford, M." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Over the 18-year life span of the average Medicare patient after turning 65, this difference amounted to $100,000 per person in 2000, without even taking into account differences in spending on prescription drugs. Fisher and colleagues specifically studied Medicare patients admitted to the hospital with a first diagnosis of heart attack, broken hip, or cancer of the colon. The cost of caring for the patients was 60 percent more in the highest-spending regions than in the lowest-spending regions." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Though this example is a bit simplistic, it gives us a glimpse of one of life's truths: metabolic energy, made possible by metabolic enzymes, dictates life span. By decreasing the demand on our bodies to use metabolic energy for digestion, we have the ability to ration our energy to extend life and health. Therefore, one of the most effective ways to improve your health is to use supplemental digestive and therapeutic enzymes. (Please note that the recommendations in this book are in no way intended to replace recommendations or advice from physicians or other health care providers." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Baillie, who studied the life span of the Daphinia water flea. They concluded that the duration of the insect's life varied with the intensity of its metabolic needs. (Edward Howell, Enzyme Nutrition [New York: Avery, 1995] 22). At lower temperatures the metabolic enzymes worked at a slower rate and the insect lived five times longer (108 days at 46 degrees) than in higher temperature environments (25 days at 82 degrees). As enzymes did their work, the insect's enzymatic potential was depleted." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Even if a full seed were to float to another island, it wouldn't be able to reproduce because it needs a tree of the opposite sex to pollinate its flowers. The life span of coco-de-mer palms remains open to interpretation. Most people speculate the age to be somewhere between two hundred and four hundred years, although some suggest that they can live for eight hundred years. We haven't been around them long enough to ascertain. Everything we know today about the Seychelles's history has been deduced since they were discovered in the eighteenth century." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"In fact all forms of life have a species-specific life span: a dog's maximum life span is 20 years, a bristlecone pine is 5,000 years, and a tortoise is 150 years. Life expectancy, however, is another matter altogether. It is the additional number of years a person can expect to live at any given age. The "wear-and-tear" on the body caused by environmental factors, toxic exposure, lifestyle choices, diet, stress, and lack of exercise is closely associated with the onset of life-shortening diseases and the obvious discrepancy between actual life span and potential maximum life span." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"This leads to an enzyme shortage and the quickest path to disease and a shortened life span. Dr. Howell illustrates this by suggesting we have a kind of enzyme bank account from which we make constant withdrawals; the fewer withdrawals, the longer we live. Some have described this process by saying that the body will borrow metabolic enzymes to manufacture digestive enzymes and vice versa. Dr. Howell's theory has caused some debate, however. Because of the specific functions enzymes perform, it's impossible for the body to borrow metabolic enzymes to use in the digestive process." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Without hormone support, you will have a shorter life span. You will also have a greater chance of developing vaginal and urinary infections, deeper skin creases, and hair loss. You will still have a one in nine chance of developing breast cancer. It is really all about balance and common sense. Understanding Health and Hormones et's face it, we all take our health for granted, yet without good health we have nothing." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"In the next two chapters, we'll look at how to extend not only your life span but, more important, your "health span." 1 DR. G'S TAKE-HOME MENU Memorize the following Gundryisms, and you'll be well on your way to acing the Restoration phase of Diet Evolution: þIf you cut down on meat, you'll reduce your heat. þA lot of greens plus a bit of meat make a meal that can't be beat. þIf you eat dark green, you'll become lean. þThe more you eat greens, the better you'll fit into your killer jeans! þTo earn it, you must burn it. þIf you lift weights, you'll lose weight." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "Ask the petit Oki-nowans or the short Sardinians, both among the longest living people on earth, if short stature signifies poor nutrition and a shortened life span. On the contrary, taller individuals tend to die earlier than their shorter peers.16 Now let's sort out the decades-long debate between the animal protein diet and vegetarian diet gurus, with their conflicting "good foods/bad foods" lists. Both camps see the tree but miss the forest. What do I mean by that?" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "In the largest study ever done in which individual dietary factors could be isolated, there was a direct correlation between the amount of animal protein consumed and a shortened life span and increased prevalence of chronic diseases that would indicate killer-gene activation.2 So, dear body restorers, the animal protein that was an integral part of the wrecking crew in the Teardown phase is going to start turning on us if we don't do something different. IT'S COOL TO LOWER THE HEAT Why does eating lots of animal protein prove harmful over the long haul?" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "My goal for you is not just a long life span, but also a long health span. You may also have heard that recent studies do not show a clear benefit to supplementing with certain vitamins; but then why has the FDA recently upped the recommendations for a multi-vitamin, folic acid, and vitamin D for all Americans? To date, research has only scratched the surface regarding the usefulness of supplements. There are two approaches to supplementation. The first is that if you eat plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits, they provide more of every compound than your genes can use." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Indeed, CRON diets have been shown to greatly enhance the life span of every species in which CRON has been studied.s Is it realistic to project these life spans? In the past two years a French woman died who was verified to be 122 years old. Recently, a woman in Brazil celebrated her 125th birthday according to RankBrasil, Brazil's equivalent to the Guinness Book of World Records. With over 50,000 Americans known to be living over the age of one hundred, there's every possibility that utilizing the CRON diet can potentially extend our life span by these incredible percentages." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

"Interestingly, studies on calorie restriction in mice, monkeys, and a variety of other species have suggested that a higher intake of daily energy may decrease the life span of neurons in the brain.18 Human studies bear out similar results. A recent research study by Giulio Pasinetti et al.19 found that while high caloric intake based on saturated fat promotes AD-type BAP accumulation, dietary restriction based on reduced carbohydrate intake tends to prevent it." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Another concern is, scientists have just recently discovered that acquiring diabetes by the age of 17 will considerably shorten your life span, (actually from 17 to 20 years shorter)! That's not just an issue for our children, but a concern for adults as well. So now we are not only needlessly putting our children on unnecessary and dangerous antidepressants, which often leads to the very debilitating diabetes, but their life span will be "considerably shorter" as well." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"All of us constantly change across our life span, and the late stages of brain aging are part of that continuum. As one patient, an eighty-year-old woman diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's disease, said, "I'm fine . . . this must be normal, I guess, for my age."5 Using a new metaphor can help us see the person in Alzheimer's rather than seeing Alzheimer's in the person. Such a view also highlights the important wisdom that we are not solitary selves. Our very personhood is always evolving and depends on our relationships with other people." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Biochemical growth inhibitors and hormone-based retardants have greatly extended the average fruit's life span. Apples can spend close to a year sitting in oxygen- and carbon-dioxide-controlled cold-storage facilities. With an atmosphere similar to Neptune's, these warehouses are the sort of gelid death chambers befitting Walt Disney's head. Soon enough, the fruits are shivering, covered in beads of perspiration and suffering from postcryonic shock. Then we bombard them with ethylene gas, which disrupts their slumber and stuns them into a galvanized ripening process." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Irrespective of the presence of disease, there is, given this finiteness of a life span, a continuous risk of dying. In most cases this increases as our age increases. Other factors can change your risk of dying as well as aging, so it's not that aging alone is the determiner, but it is the overarching change. People have been searching for biological markers of aging, and so far nobody has found any that are absolutely constant and separate from the onset of diseases. People look at, for example, the loss of accommodation in the lens of the eye." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"The idea of being the victim of a limited life span because it runs in the family didn't ring true for me. I couldn't help but think that maybe their story could have another ending; perhaps something would change in their lives and her husband would be the first one to break the cycle that had plagued his family for as long as anyone could remember. Now that she'd told me about the "curse" and we were to work together, the door was open for the deep, often-emotional conversations that were to follow." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "Since his own father had died at 75, in his mind that life span was the model that helped him structure his time on Earth. He'd shared his belief with his family for as long as anyone could remember. Although he may have wanted to live longer, and he enjoyed spending time with his friends and family, he wasn't angry or disappointed at the thought of leaving the world after only seven and a half decades of life. Based on the previous chapters of this book and the power that we know is held in our beliefs, what comes next should be no surprise." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "Of the estimated 50 trillion or so cells that reside within the average human, most are documented to have the ability to repair themselves and reproduce throughout our life span. In other words, we're constantly replacing and rebuilding ourselves from the inside out! Until recently, scientists believed that there were two exceptions to the phenomenon of cell regeneration. Interestingly, these special cases are the cells of the two centers that are most closely identified with the spiritual qualities that make us who we are: our brain and our heart." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "I also learned quickly that something like a spouse's life span can be a really sensitive subject, and talking about it can be a little tricky?especially with someone you share an office with. Although the research has shown an unmistakable correlation between our core beliefs and the health, vitality, and longevity of our bodies, it's also easy to misinterpret this kind of connection. It's all about the way that information is shared." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"I use the word normal because our bodies and minds, which have evolved over millions of years, have been optimized to ensure the proliferation and survival of our species rather than an extended life span for individuals. Thus, the onset of age-related conditions such as brain aging appears to be part of the "normal" sequence of events that takes place after we have reached an age when we can no longer reproduce and fulfill our evolutionary purpose.16 It would actually be quite abnormal for someone not to have increasing memory challenges in their seventies, eighties, and beyond." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Caleb Finch, a professor at the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California, Finch clearly makes the point that heredity plays a minor role in determining life span.7 One of the most important roles in longevity is connected to lifestyle.This principle applies to the tendency to be diabetic. If we do not activate the diabetes-producing genes, with poor diet and lifestyle, then diabetes will not manifest." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Dementia is a nonspecific blanket term that encompasses many processes that occur during the life span, even in children and young adults. There are many types of dementia, among which Alzheimer's disease is thought to be the most prevalent. Some other types are vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, frontal lobe dementia, Pick's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"The projections by the Centers for Disease Control for children with Type-2 diabetes is that their life span will be shortened by nineteen years. The treatment of diabetes is further complicated by a belief system stated by the New York Times and backed by most doctors treating diabetes: "Diabetes has no cure. It is progressive and fatal." Even the preliminary results of our research are showing this to be a myth." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

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